14-letter words starting with u
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- undermentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- undernourished — not nourished with sufficient or proper food to maintain or promote health or normal growth.
- undernutrition — nutritional deficiency resulting from lack of food or from the inability of the body to convert or absorb it.
- underpopulated — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underqualified — having the qualities, accomplishments, etc., that fit a person for some function, office, or the like.
- underrepresent — to give inadequate representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately low.
- undersaturated — unsaturated (def 2).
- undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
- understandable — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandably — capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- understructure — a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation: The building has a strong understructure.
- undersubscribe — to subscribe for less of than is available, expected, or required: The concert series is undersubscribed and may be cancelled.
- underthroating — (on a cornice) a cove extended outward and downward to form a drip.
- underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undeservedness — the quality or state of being undeserved
- undesignedness — the state of being undesigned
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- undeterminable — capable of being determined.
- undiminishable — unable to be diminished
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
- undogmatically — in an undogmatic manner
- undomesticated — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- undramatically — in an undramatic manner
- undulant fever — brucellosis.
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- unenlightening — not enlightening; not clarifying
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unentertaining — not entertaining or amusing
- unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- unequivalently — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- unexpectedness — not expected; unforeseen; surprising: an unexpected pleasure; an unexpected development.
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- unfaithfulness — not faithful; false to duty, obligation, or promises; faithless; disloyal.
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- unfriendedness — the state of being unfriended
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- ungroundedness — the state of being without basis
- unhandsomeness — unattractiveness
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.